ATLANTA - Cox Enterprises Inc. announced Wednesday the company is bringing together its three media units — Cox Newspapers, Cox Television and Cox Radio — under a new organization called Cox Media Group Inc.

PHOENIX - Families and friends of four journalists dedicated a monument Sunday at a Phoenix park where the men died when their helicopters crashed while following a car chase.

The Queen Creek and San Tan area was once a fertile delta that brought prehistoric farmers, known as the Hohokam, to the area and kept settlers coming. Hundreds of years later came a stage stop on a route from Florence to Mesa.

The Mesa Unified School District hired three new leaders Tuesday evening.

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Mesa police are investigating after an anonymous letter threatening a faculty member arrived Thursday at Smith Junior High School.

The Valley lost four television newsmen Friday night — men who were remembered for their passion for broadcast news and flight, and their dedication to their jobs.

Family, friends and neighbors are getting together to organize a golf tournament on Jan. 18 on behalf of McKenzie Bruce, a 13-year-old Gilbert girl who is recovering from severe head trauma she suffered last year.

The battle for pay-TV subscribers intensified in the past year while all cable and dish providers in the East Valley claimed victories.

Safety at Mesa schools could be improved by adding fencing, replacing chainlink fences with wrought iron fences and relocating offices to the exteriors of campus, the district’s security director told the governing board Tuesday night.

Bruce Russell loved creating stained glass, but he didn’t want his Mesa home filled with it. So if it wasn’t for word of mouth about his stained glass, the former Mesa teacher would have never continued the craft.

For Taylor Berey, it all started with dog treats — more than 600 pounds of them. As community service for his Bar Mitzvah last year, Berey, now 13, began helping the Thomas J. Pappas Schools for Homeless Children, located in Tempe and Phoenix. Since then, he’s raised more than $14,000 by making, baking and selling all-natural organic dog treats.

Few topics make parents more squeamish than talking to their children about one little three-letterword: sex. A group of parents from the Kyrene Parent Network in the Kyrene Elementary and Tempe Union High school districts recently met to tackle the daunting subject.

The Ahwatukee Bowl is going national. ESPNU is slated to broadcast of the annual showdown between Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe's football teams. DV principal Anna Battle confirmed Friday that both schools have signed contracts to televise the game.

Citing a need to bring technology up from its current "lagging" state and a faith in community support, the Mesa Unified School District governing board plans to vote Thursday to put a bond election on the November ballot.

Teacher retention and district funding are the big issues for Fountain Hills Unified School District governing board candidates.

Teacher retention and district funding are the big issues for Fountain Hills Unified School District governing board candidates.

I’d like to talk to you today about math and politics.

In a majority of horror movie franchises the only characters that leave an impression on the audience are the villains. We all remember Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and the Jigsaw killer. But how many people can actually name any of the countless victims they've claimed over the years? This has never been the case with the "Scream" series, however. These are films about people we care about and identify with because, unlike the forgotten souls in a typical "Friday the 13th" picture, these characters actually watch scary movies on a regular basis.

In a majority of horror movie franchises the only characters that leave an impression on the audience are the villains. We all remember Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and the Jigsaw killer. But how many people can actually name any of the countless victims they've claimed over the years? This has never been the case with the "Scream" series, however. These are films about people we care about and identify with because, unlike the forgotten souls in a typical "Friday the 13th" picture, these characters actually watch scary movies on a regular basis.

“A short history of airport security: We screen for guns, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters, so they put explosives in their sneakers. We screen footwear, so they try to use liquids. We confiscate liquids, so they put plastic explosives in their underwear. We roll out full-body scanners, even though they wouldn’t have caught the Underwear Bomber, so they put a bomb in a printer cartridge. We ban printer cartridges over 16 ounces — the level of magical thinking here is amazing — and they’re going to do something else. This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it.” — Bruce Schneier, security technologist and author of several books on computer security, in an editorial he wrote for the New York Times entitled “Do Body Scanners Make Us Safer? A Waste of Money and Time”

Critics often gripe about the blink-and-you've-missed-it frenzy of action sequences in today's Hollywood thrillers.

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